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“They Got Me! It’s Working!!”
Dec 16th
Funniest commercial ever??
If this doesn’t make you laugh– you’re officially the devil.
ABC.Com- Watch Full Episodes of Your Favorite Shows (Or Don’t)
Nov 17th
I have tried to watch episodes of ABC shows on ABC.com’s full episode player. Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to do so, on any computer I’ve tried. I’ve seen tons of posts from other people who cannot get the player to work either.
Yet, if I go to Hulu, I can watch episodes of NBC shows fine. The player works right away, I get no problems, and it’s a great experience.
This leads to one conclusion- even if you have millions of dollars at your disposal, you can completely screw up any project. Maybe the tech guys over at ABC could fix this problem sometime…maybe this decade? It’s odd when a tiny site with no tech genius behind the wheel can offer up thousands of videos without issue, yet one of the largest TV operations in the country employing hundreds if not thousands of technical wizards can’t offer up a single video.
Photoshop Tutorials- Grass Text
Oct 18th
I’m taking Photoshop as part of my degree. I’ve worked with the program a bit over the years, but I don’t know tons about it or what it can really do when you get into it. I should be taking 2 or 3 more photoshop classes after this initial class, so I should get fairly well versed in it after 2 years and then more so after 2 more years when I transfer to get a bachelor’s (currently working toward an assoc. in visual communicatons with a concentration on film/video).
Anyhow, I’m trying to find as many online tutorials I can for the program and try out some of them myself. I found this one the other day where you make a greenish background with a gradient to a soft yellow, you get a photo of grass, you make letters made of grass, add shadows and accents, etc. It’s pretty cool, so I wanted to see what I could do myself.
I had trouble with step 12 where you use the pen tool and cut away the excess grass. I can’t figure out how to do that. I can trace the first letter of EARTH with the pen, then I inverse the selection…but I’m not sure how you get that tracing to come out as the grass alone and the excess grass deleted.
I worked on finding a solution over a period of a few hours while doing other things online, and I couldn’t get a solution. I found many others in the comments of that tutorial had the same issue. I thought about it, and I worked around that issue. Instead of using the pen tool, I simply used the lasso tool, traced around in the same manner, copied that selection, hid the text and grass picture layers, pasted the E of earth, then unhid the grass and text layers, and went to the A in earth, and so forth. Should come out the same way in the end.
Here is what I have so far as the background…I hid the grass layer which I’m working on now just so you can see the background I came up with by using the textured paper photos supplied in the tutorial, rotated and duplicated a few of those texture layers, added some black paintbrush to the corners as instructed, etc.
I scaled this image down so it’d fit the screen here, The final pic I’m creating will be 1280 x 800 at 600ppi. Click image for fullsize version
I’d recommend checking out more of the tutorials on this particular site. Check out the videos for You Don’t Know Photoshop on youtube (easy to follow, funny, and informative while entertaining at the same time), there are some podcasts I downloaded but have yet to listen to. I have a couple of books as well, so that should add to the basic book I have for the class. Nice material to supplement the textbook itself.
I got the master collection, so I now have Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and all the rest…hopefully I can get some of the “for dummies” books and learn each program. Trying my best to become as well rounded in the field as possible. Beef up the ol’ resume and all that fun stuff…I’m off to get some sleep for now.
Youtube Has a Favorites Limit, Huh?
Oct 17th
Biggest sign you ‘save to favorite’ every youtube video you watch- you discover that the site has a limit of 650 favorites.
I discovered years ago that Amazon.com wishlists had a limit of 1, 000 items. They’ve upped that over the years, but I had to open 2 more accounts for wishlists before they made those changes. Yes, I found nearly 3, 000 products on Amazon.com that I wanted enough to add to my wishlist.
Scary Adults Warp Children’s Minds for Obama
Sep 30th
I’m sorry folks, but the Obama worshippers…and yes I call those among his near cult-like following “worshippers” ate pushing the bounds of what is sane and creepy and what is just plain insane and terrifying. A liberal zombie with nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon? Why not write a song to The ObamaMessiah, get 22 local kids to sing it, record it and make it into a music video? Hell, why not?
Can someone explain to me how any rational person actually thinks Obama could “change the world” as his supporters often life to claim? The very thought is absolutely absurd.
Think about the past year and the utter creepiness from the Obama worshippers.
Obama girl and her lame videos. Those black eyed peas fellas and their musical tribute to Obama. Stevie Wonder singing Obama’s name. The “Yes I Can” nonsense with all the Hollywood douches, and on and on and on…When I first saw the video above, the first thing that came to mind was the video from Jesus camp with the kids.
Enough already weird-ies!! We get it. You worship the man.
Newsflash to all of his supporters- the hope and change rhetoric is cute. However, if you take a second to check the man’s background and the relevant facts, there’s not a shred of evidence to suggest that Obama is in any manner a change in politics or that he offers some sort of new hope. The guy is a veteran of Chicago machine politics…he’s played dirty, he’s been ruthless, he’s been uber-partisan never once working across the aisle on any significant issue. The facts don’t add up the rhetoric.
Unfortunately, I have a feeling most of his supporters couldn’t tell me a single thing about the man, his ideas, or his stance on any major issue let alone tell me anything about his background and life story- a story that lays to rest any idea of change of any sort.
The video above is an example of what happens when people create an imaginary figure in their head, turn off their brains, and turn on a camera.
Wikileaks Scumbags Praise Hacking BillOreilly.com
Sep 24th
I’m not too familiar with WikiLeaks, as I try to stay away from sites filled with scumbags who have no respect for the law, and sites that are run by loons with no brain cells in their heads are a headache I try to avoid at all costs. I’ve done a little research on them, and it’s clear they are in complete violation of numerous laws. They also happen to be lacking any and all basic decency and logic whatsoever. Some idiot hacker living in some basement somewhere, drinking mountain dew, eating beef jerky and spending all of his time hoping he may one day touch a real, live girl hacked into Bill O’Reilly’s main website and posted customer EMail addresses, hometown information, and more on wikileaks. Of course, WikiLeaks has no qualms about hosting a forum to post this illegally gained information and even goes out of their way to praise it, saying:
“Wikileaks has been informed the hack was a response to the pundit’s recent scurrilous attacks over the Sarah Palin’s e-mail story — including on Wikileaks and other members of the press,” Wikileaks said on its site. “Hacktivists, thumbing their noses at the pundit, took control of O’Reilly’s main site, Billoreilly.com.”
“Scurrilous attacks”? Let’s examine these claims.
O’Reilly, in a commentary on his Fox News show, said of sites like WikiLeaks (he refused to name the site on air) in regards to the hacking and posting of EMails in Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo account:
“I’m not going to mention the website that posted this, but it’s one of those despicable, slimy, scummy websites…Everybody knows where this stuff is, OK, and they know the people who run the website, so why can’t they go there tonight to the guy’s house who runs it, put him in cuffs and take him down and book him?”
So, he said that the sites that post this illeally-gained information are slimy and scummy. What do hackers with no lives do in response to this “scurrilous attack”? They hack Bill’s site and post the personal information of dozens of premium members. Classy, guys, real classy! I guess his “attacks” weren’t so “scurrilous” afterall.
Here’s a tip. If you’re going to attack someone for supposed “scurrilous attacks”, don’t respond by proving you’re brain dead morons and deserved the attack to begin with. If someone calls you slimy and scummy, don’t respond by doing slimy and scummy things. The logic of these mental giants is astounding, no doubt.
Isn’t it about time we pass tough laws (if they’re not already on the books) to punish these zombies for their slimy and scummy behavior?
And a note to the tech writers who for some reason praise WikiLeaks and similar sites for the supposedly good things they do, get real. Scumbags who sometimes do something positive are still scumbags and they deserve zero respect. Their criminals, plain and simple…and worse, they’re criminals who need to be in diapers, because they’re whiny ass little babies.
How’s that for a scurrilous attack?
Assoc Press: F You, Secret Service, You’re Not Getting the Illegally Gained Palin E-Mails
Sep 18th
From the Associated Press story on the stolen Palin EMails:
The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply. The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business. The practice was revealed months ago — prior to Palin’s selection as a vice presidential candidate — after political critics obtained internal e-mails documenting the practice by some aides…”
So, just so I have this straight- the AP somehow gets illegally hacked EMails and posts sensitive information in their own story (they posted the personal addresses of Palin, her husband, and others), they post the illegally-gained information in their stories, then when asked for the illegally-gained information they give the secret service the middle finger?
Why do people not trust the media anymore? Could it be idiots like those at the AP who post illegal information then play keep away when law enforcement comes around to, ya know, ENFORCE THE LAW?!
Disgusting.
New TheBlueSite Forums
Sep 12th
New forums here
http://thebluesite.com/forums/
I have yet to set it up…I believe you can register and post now. If not, comment here and let me know.
For some reason, comments are automatically closing on older posts…not sure why. Looking into it and hopefully will have a solution to globally reopen ALL comments to all posts. Will update with more info. tomorrow if I can figure it out…
Will also work on the forums tomorrow if I get a chance.
Idiotic Leftist Argument: Know Who Else Was a Community Organizer? Jesus.
Sep 10th
I’m seeing a lot of this current argument supporting Obama that you shouldn’t knock the fact that he was a community organizer (who, during his time organizing did a whole bunch of nothing)…because guess who else was a community organizer? None other than Jesus Christ himself. No shock to see the cultists comparing their beloved One to Jesus, but the weird cult-like following is another matter altogether.
Apparently, even Democratic members of Congress are joining the bandwagon. Now, they’re attacking Governor Palin by comparing Obama to Jesus and Palin to Pilate!
I take it those who came up with this argument didn’t really put much thought into the argument itself. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that we could call Jesus a community organizer. You’re left with two choices on how to judge Jesus after knowing that…
A Christian would have to argue Jesus was a community organizer, BUT there’s this teeny tiny matter of him also being God in human form. Now, from the way things have progressed thus far, maybe the cultists believe that Obama is God in human form too. Who knows? We can safely assume he isn’t.
A non-christian is left with the argument that Jesus was a great community organizer, but there’s that little fact that he was also a stark-raving mad lunatic who claimed to be God and claimed to have special powers.
I’m going with the theory that not a whole lot of thought was put into formulating this argument.
Obama is no God. However, he did spend 20 years in the pews of a racist anti-American church, so he may very well be a lunatic.
Anti-Christian Bigots Smear Palin on Religion
Sep 8th
There’s been a lot of talk about Sarah Palin’s former church and some videos posted online from the Assembly Of God in her hometown where she attended for years. You won’t see anything racist or anti-American in the videos…that would be the videos of Barack Obama’s church of 20 years that he only left when he was forced to when his nutjob pastor’s comments came into public view. Palin left the church of the various videos in 2004. (Here’s a link to one of the videos that looks to be highly edited.)
The Huffington Post…you know, the liberal site where the commenters frequently praise the deaths of various conservatives in the limelight? They were apparently the first to post the videos, but did they report the situation honestly? It’s HuffPo, so you can guess that they didn’t…they didn’t at all. Here’s how MSNBC reported it:
From NBC’s Michael Levine
As questions have been raised over how thoroughly Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign vetted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for the V.P. slot, it seems the McCain campaign was unaware of a video — available online — in which Palin talks about God’s role in U.S. military action overseas, according to a political operative familiar with the situation.The video, first reported by the liberal blog HuffingtonPost.com, is from a June Palin speech to the graduating class of commission students at Palin’s former church in Wasilla, Alaska. While describing her family, Palin told students about her oldest son, 19-year-old Track, who is set to be deployed to Iraq this month with the U.S. Army. She urged students to pray “that our leaders — that our national leaders — are sending [soldiers] out on a task that is from God.”
She added, “That’s what we have to make sure that we are praying for: that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
“It’s pretty uncomfortable stuff,” said the political operative, after watching the video online. “It’s bad. It’s really bad. … It’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out.”
In addition to talking about Iraq, Palin also referred to God’s role in her work as governor.
“I can do my part in working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline, about a $30 billion project that’s going to create a lot of jobs for Alaska. … [but] I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” she said. “I can do my job there in developing our natural resources, in doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded. But really that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s hearts aren’t right with God.”
Clearly Palin is saying the same thing that a billion Christians worldwide say every day= they pray that whatever it is they’re doing that God is ultimately in control. That their actions are, hopefully, in the path of righteosuness. This is basic Biblically Christianity.
Jake Tapper reported that the writers at HuffPo tried to even go further:
The Huffington Post described this as Palin “paint(ing) the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord,” which McCain-Palin spokesman Michael Goldfarb calls “a distortion of what she was saying.”
Only hatred for Palin and her views would lead a person to claim that Palin’s remarks were somehow meaning that the war was a messianic affair in which the US was acting out the will of the Lord. BS all the way down, my friends. It’s obvious what Palin was saying, and it’s not at all outrageous, and it’s not at all unusual. Bible-believing Christians say the same thing all the time…they pray that their actions are the ones that God would approve of, that the things we have put into action are good and worthy of praise by a higher power. We should strive to be more in step with what God would want us to do, and we should pray that what we actually do is in line with the Lord. In other words, we hope that the choices we make are right and good. That’s not a messianic claim, that’s simply good sense.
UPDATE (Sept 11, 2008 @ 8:04PM): Here is the full quote from Palin’s comments on how she prays that what the military is doing is a thing God would approve of:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
Some have argued that she’s saying that the US invasion of Iraq was a task that God called us to do, or that somehow she’s proclaiming a messianic call of sorts to war via God’s direction, when in fact she’s merely praying that what we’re doing is right. She’s praying in the hope that the US leaders have sent the soldiers into harm’s way to do a noble and good deed.
You will notice how she clearly says she’s praying that there is, indeed, a plan, and that the current plan (in every day life, and in sending troops into Iraq in particular are in line with what God would want, in line with a plan that would match God’s own plan. In other words, a plan that is noble and right in the eyes of a just and loving God, which is all we can really pray for to begin with.)
When asked about this by Charlie Gibson of ABC News, she replied:
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words.
But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side.
That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.
GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln’s words, but you went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.”
So, we have the context of her comment and her prayer. We know that Christians are called Biblically to pray for what is right, and what is right are the things that are right in the eyes of God not the eyes of man. We now have her even further explanation to make sure no one continues to take her obvious comments out of context. That should close the book on this issue, but it won’t…her attackers will claim that she’s making up this fictional story now to cover herself and that the Bible somehow calls Christians to proclaim war is a plan directly from the mouth of God. The facts are in, and that’s certainly not what she was saying at all.
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